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necessarily be fewer, and placed farther apart than where 

 the sm-face operated on is of an iindnlating hilly cha- 

 racter. ^Tiere a large body of wood is reqnii-ed, it is 

 injudicious to form the leading and secondary masses 

 into dense and almost impenions thickets, as is too 

 fi-equently done; it is better to arrange them into a 

 gradation of masses interspersed with lawns, glades, and 

 other openings, in addition to the rides by which they 

 may be trayersed, and the ordinaiy roads necessary for 

 their management. Where the main masses are small, 

 a similar effect may be produced by lesser openings and 

 indentations. In both cases groups of trees and single 

 trees should be scattered through the glades and along 

 the margins of the larger bodies of wood. This is exem- 

 plified in those places in which masses of wood are seen 

 forming pleasm'e-gi'ounds round the mansion-house. T^^e 

 do not mean that these masses of wood in the park 

 should be dissected into as many and as small divisions 

 as are often necessary in the dressed gi^ounds ; but there 

 are many places in which the woods are gi-eatly enliyened 

 by such open spaces, and by the addition of a few clumps 

 and groups of single trees, rehe^ing yet attached to the 

 general masses. In hilly and mountainous countries 

 large masses of wood are sometimes planted, but it is 

 seldom desii'able to intersect these with wide openings or 

 lengthened glades. A better effect is produced by bays 

 and indentations, as already recommended. Wlien the 

 woods haye been foraied, as above explained, into a 

 variety of leading and secondary combinations, the 

 position of the indiridual plantations should be such as 

 obviously to appear portions of their own systems. They 

 should vary in size as well as in form, and should be sepa- 

 rated by open spaces of varying breadth. The projec- 



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